I don't know if any of you fully know my story. Last year I had a disc replacement surgery in my low back and have spent the majority of my time since dedicated to getting back on the mat and retuning to form. It would be an understatment to say thus far its been difficult. I have made some strides with my cardio and technique and managed to lose about 30 pounds in the process but being my worst critic, it is impossible for me to look at anything I've done as a smashing success.
Perhaps BJJ came easy to me early on.
Perhaps my training partners were big ole softees.
Perhaps I'm not really making the progress I initially thought I made.
Nope...It's none of that. I suffer from a disease alot of grapplers with low back pain suffer from: Horrible Hip Syndrome aka HHS.
When I was a wee lad studying Physical Therapy, I had a professor once tell me, "everything in you body is connected to everything else". I understood physiologically that all your body's systems rely on one another but it never really rang true with me until I had this surgery and it makes even more sense whenever I am stuck under Felipe's side control.
HHS consists of the following symptoms:
1. inability to disassociate ones hips from their trunk
2. inability to create space for the escape
3. mild depression
4. (ASSITS)Acute Silent Stimulus Induced Tourette's Syndrome (usually charaterized by the uttering in ones mind "Fuck, not this shit again")
There are a few treatments out there for HHS:
1. a rigorus stretching routine focusing on spinal rotation and hip opening
2. improving ones guard defense
3. proaction over reaction
If you are suffering from this awful disease please see you local instructor for more tips on how to remedy this. What I have come to learn thus far is that HHS is very treatable but it will take alot of patience and dedication.
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